Namiji, designed by Antoine Bauza for 2-5 players, is a relaxing, Japan-themed board game of worker placement and set collection. Taking 30-45 minutes, players 8+ sail around a track, engaging in fishing, net casting, and completing panoramas to earn points. Namiji offers multiple scoring strategies and a unique turn mechanism that keeps tension high.
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Another bird-themed word game? Yes! We recommend Words of a Feather when you want a beautiful setting for a light, casual word game.
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Scram! is a hit for our crew because it’s light, strategic, and without any mental overload. Turns go quick and kids will stay engaged. While we only were able to get four players to the table, it would be a hoot at six.
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This is a game that encourages outside-the-box thinking, and also allows multiple players to be recognized for their answers and insight.
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In Sunrise Lane, players compete to build the most lucrative and attractive neighborhoods. The higher their town rises, the more prestige they will enjoy. Certain city blocks are better investments than others, but timing is everything, and sometimes blocking a fellow builder from a great investment is the way to get ahead! The player with the most clever balance of both short-term scoring and long-term planning will surely rise to the top.
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Sherlock Holmes and his associates star in this deduction game. Can you be the first to successfully discover the identity of the hidden criminal?
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Are kids allowed when you’re saving the known universe? We think so. Cooperate to contain cubes from the collapsing Tesseract before it causes an irreparable breach!
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Build a harmonious city in this competitive, fast paced, tile placement game! We think it’s best at 4 players.
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Nautilus Island is a vibrant drafting and set collection game. Collect objects from The Nautilus to survive and escape!
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Age of Ambition offers seven modules that can be added to Space Explorers. No matter which we chose, no mechanics felt out of place. If you want more Space Explorers, you can’t go wrong here.
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Players chuck dice to make Mars habitable: increasing oxygen, raising temperature, and creating oceans. The dice represent different resources players can spend to raise these terraforming parameters or play Project cards.
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“Drive” a blindfolded teammate with words – and by using their thumb like a joystick – to steer them around a racecourse on a dry-erase board.
We learned a lot about communicating with our kids through playing this game!
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With simple rules and quick set up, Chomp is easy to dive into. The complexity lies in the decisions of card drafting and placement while considering end game scoring. And it works wonderfully as a solo puzzle game.
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Purrfect Match is a tableau building game – your goal is to have at least two of each type of cat in your cafe, and there are six types of cat.
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Can you build the best “overworld” for your video-game monsters? “Overboss is a map-building game from the makers of Boss Monster.
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Play your cards following almost-standard trick-taking rules, and try to “eat” (score) other players’ animals or kale, in FORK, a family-friendly card game.
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A mystery-solving adventure game set in the Zombie Kidz universe. Examine three Memories over several sessions to figure out the zombies’ plan and how to stop them!
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Join the legendary team of Walt Disney Animation Studios to complete classic Disney films before the villains of those films stop them from being made!
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We’ve compiled a list of great board games to help make your gift shopping a little easier.
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